"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

-- Samuel Butler

#Funny Quotes #Friendship Quotes #Sarcastic Quotes

“If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.”
“MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of ***** as she herself poses it - the harm that ***** does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.”
“I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.”
“To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.”
“Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.”
“Here's a twenty, bury two.”
“I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.”

Source : James Boswell, Roger Ingpen (1791). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.74
“There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is”

Source : William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.43, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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